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Ana Arboleda always makes sure her police uniform is crisp and clean when she leaves home but never more so than on New York’s annual Pride celebration, when two parts of her identity converge.
Ms. Arboleda is a sergeant in the New York Police Department; she is also a lesbian and feels most connected to the L.G.B.T.Q. community when she marches down Fifth Avenue with the Gay Officers Action League during New York’s annual Pride celebration, taking in the crowd’s thunderous applause.
This year Ms. Arboleda is not certain whether she will participate. The city’s Pride organizers are taking steps to reduce the presence of law enforcement at the celebration, including a ban on uniformed police and corrections officers marching as groups until at least 2025 a decision that she called “devastating.”